An Echo in the Void

An Echo in the Void is a Black Mirror-esque thriller in which four apparent strangers wake together inside a virtual reality after an AI system designed to help with grief has begun stealing identities and harvesting memories. As questions of ownership, identity and the consequences of AI unfold, they have to work out what is real and what the system wants them to believe.

The premise is relevant enough, but the story is predictable. The acting is very okay rather than particularly strong, and once the initial set-up is established there is not a great deal else happening. There are some attempts to use light to build the world, which is good to see, but the production does not do much with them.

The show is neither good nor bad. It is occasionally amusing, but the central ideas are familiar and the dramatic treatment does not add much that is new. A perfectly functional play, but a predictable one.

Runs 5–18 August and 20–29 August at 4:40pm.